About Us

As enthusiastic and ambitious football players at a semi-professional level, we are always looking for ways to take our game to the next level. Hungry for the best version we spend hours on the field, but also off it. 
Those many hours of extra training also had their disadvantages: irritations (blisters, blue toenails, pressure points), tired and cramped feet and even Achilles tendonitis. Instead of training more, we had to rest more.
On top of that, it was difficult to find one reliable platform with substantiated information and practical tools to take our game to the next level.

During the preparation for the new season in thesummer of 2019, our feet started to hurt more on the warm synthetic fields. Sliding from soaked socks in wet shoes in bad weather was also a thing of the past for us. After an Achilles tendon injury the season before, we were looking for a solution. Our feet are the basis of sports. They deserved extra comfort so that we could train and perform more and better.

The first test with our grip socks was an immediate success: changing direction, accelerating and braking have never felt so comfortable. After further optimizing our grip sock, professional athletes were also convinced from the first introduction: from football players Bjorn Engels, Yannick Thoelen, Maarten Vandevoordt, Lennart Mertens,… to Belgian Cat Antonia Delaere, professional tennis player Michaël Geerts and the first class basketball players. Clubs KV Mechelen, KMSK Deinze, BCO Opwijk, etc. also choose PlayWear.

PlayWear continues to innovate in terms of materials and training methods. We want to become the platform for all athletes with a dream, with an unquenchable hunger to improve. The best grip socks, new products, training/lifestyle programs for athletes and continuous tips & tricks is what you can expect from us.

Meet the team

  • Jef Uyttersprot

    Founder.

    The passion for sports and the ingrained will to help others led to the founding of PlayWear in 2019

  • Sander Gustin

    Performance Expert.

    As a physiotherapist, physiotherapist, osteopath and dry needling expert, Sander is a wealth of knowledge. Always wildly enthusiastic to delve deeper into his profession. All with one goal in mind: allowing athletes to perform optimally.

  • Belo Bandombele

    Personal Coach.

    The man behind LyonDream. Belo coaches professional football players and emerging talent individually. His mission is to make football players smarter, more technical and, in short, more complete.